Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers major outage, disrupting Office 365, Xbox Live, and other global services.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud network faced a major disruption Wednesday, knocking out access to popular platforms including Office 365 , Minecraft , and Xbox Live .The issue, which Microsoft linked to its global content delivery system, has exposed the scale of dependence on the company’s traffic-routing backbone.
According to an update on the Azure status page, engineers are investigating problems tied to Azure Front Door, the service that directs user traffic across Microsoft’s global edge network.When that routing layer falters, requests to cloud-hosted applications, including enterprise tools and gaming servers, fail to resolve.Microsoft says it is mitigating the issueWhile Microsoft hasn’t released a detailed root cause, the company confirmed it is actively mitigating the issue.“We have initiated the deployment of our last known good configuration, which is expected to complete within 30 minutes. As this deployment progresses, customers should begin to see initial signs of recovery. Once completed, we will begin recovering nodes and routing traffic through these healthy nodes,” Microsoft 365 said.“We do not yet have an ETA for full mitigation, but we will provide another update within 30 minutes, once the deployment has complete,” it added.Reports on Downdetector showed thousands of users experiencing outages on Office 365, Copilot, and Xbox Live. The glitch also hit Minecraft, one of Microsoft’s largest hosted ecosystems, interrupting gameplay worldwide.The outage landed at a sensitive time, just hours before Microsoft’s quarterly earnings release and barely a week after Amazon Web Services suffered a similar meltdown that took down large swaths of the web.Both incidents underline a growing concern in the tech world: a handful of hyperscale cloud providers now power most of the global internet.A single configuration error or network fault in these sprawling systems can cascade instantly, halting everything from office collaboration tools to entertainment networks.
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